High-water mark
347.9772
career-best overall
96.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 347.9772 at Last Chance Points Dance (BACKYARD) — 96.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- Oct 25, 2025
Macalicious BBQ
Macalicious BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 30 at the Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) (2026), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once. They finished #139 in the 2026 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1533
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Jun 20, 2025
latest Mar 27, 2026
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
33% of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 34%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
83%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±4.43
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 173.13 · weakest Pork (170.26)
Road miles
674
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 205 mi
Schedule strength
67%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1585)
Purse competed for
$59K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Backyard avg
343.10 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Macalicious BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Macalicious BBQ has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 82 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,145 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1533
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,132 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1534
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 5 contests, alongside a 60% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,135 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1533
They were already cooking in 2018, 7 years before Macalicious BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,134 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1537
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Macalicious BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,128 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1539
Level with Macalicious BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,123 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 44%
- Peak
- 1534
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 9 contests to 6.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 166.8344 | 171.86 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 178.2972 | 166.2284 | 173.13 | top 31% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 170.2628 | 170.26 | top 23% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
By field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 38% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 7% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 47% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2025
4 contests
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Opponents faced
135
finished ahead 105 times, behind 56
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20264 milestones
- First overall podium Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1536) Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY)
20256 milestones
- First tracked contest Poosa Q
- First call Poosa Q
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score343.9428 Poosa Q
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.2972 The Great Alabama BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First overall top-10 Last Chance Points Dance (BACKYARD)
- Career-best overall score347.9772 Last Chance Points Dance (BACKYARD)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.8 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Mar 13, 2026 |
| +10.6 | Last Chance Points Dance (BACKYARD) | Oct 25, 2025 |
| +10.3 | Poosa Q | Jun 20, 2025 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2.4 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) | Mar 27, 2026 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 35% | 95.7% | 94.5% |
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 34% | 96.7% | 96.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2026 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) Athens, AL | 27 / 43 (335.8968) | 25 (169.6684) | 29 (166.2284) | — | — |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 2 / 30 (344.5716) | 10 (166.8344) | 2 (177.7372) | 7 (170.2628) | — |
| Oct 25, 2025 | Last Chance Points Dance (BACKYARD) Cleveland, AL | 6 / 16 (347.9772) | 13 (170.8228) | 2 (177.1544) | — | — |
| Oct 24, 2025 | The Great Alabama BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Cleveland, AL | — | 10 (174.2744) | — | — | — |
| Oct 24, 2025 | The Great Alabama BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cleveland, AL | — | — | 2 (178.2972) | — | — |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 13 / 42 (343.9428) | 4 (177.7028) | 25 (166.2400) | — | — |